Jack Butler

Jack Butler is submissions editor at National Review Online, a 2023–2024 Leonine Fellow, and a 2022–2023 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

Posts by Jack Butler

July 29, 2025

Eddington Is COVID

Eddington is not supposed to be a horror movie. This might be a surprise to fans of the writer-director also responsible for the demented supernatural family drama Hereditary and the Wicker Man–esque neo-pagan nightmare Midsommar. Continue Reading...
June 25, 2024

Pagans, Gnostics, and Christians—Oh My?

Conservatives, conscious of the past, disturbed by the present, and worried about the future, often ask: Where did it all go wrong? The polymathic aristocrat Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argued that the “genuine historian” would trace our present ills to the French Revolution. Continue Reading...